Deepak Chopra quotes

“Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.”

— Deepak Chopra

“Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.”

— Deepak Chopra

“I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?”

— Deepak Chopra

“My father was a doctor, an army cardiologist.”

— Deepak Chopra

“Religions take donations and don't pay taxes.”

— Deepak Chopra

“So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.”

— Deepak Chopra

“Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.”

— Deepak Chopra

“The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.”

— Deepak Chopra

“We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure.”

— Deepak Chopra

“We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.”

— Deepak Chopra

“When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.”

— Deepak Chopra

“No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the point where these molecules became conscious.”

— Deepak Chopra

“In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.”

— Deepak Chopra

“So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly.”

— Deepak Chopra

“Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.”

— Deepak Chopra

“We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.”

— Deepak Chopra

“And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can call the soul. A collective component which is more archetypal and a deeper level, and then a universal domain of consciousness.”

— Deepak Chopra

“From a scientist's perspective, to understand everything that you need to know about human beings, you only have to tinker with all the mechanical parts of genes and the brain until there are no more secrets left.”

— Deepak Chopra

“My own training is in the field of neuroendocrinology and I really became very fascinated many years ago with the molecules of emotion, molecules that we call neuropeptides.”

— Deepak Chopra

“Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.”

— Deepak Chopra

“When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource.”

— Deepak Chopra